Rito (Mushroom Father)

read this!! I realize that I am, perhaps, the most biased voice in this room, but trust me. it's good

Free with your email, today's piece from @ashhuntly.bsky.social examines how we retell history, and why The House in Fata Morgana does it so well: "This is the danger of telling history only by folding paper in half: the imprinting marks both sides."

close enough

🎃Happy Halloween!🎃 Even the White-Haired Girl is dressed up for this special night. What awaits beyond the mansion’s door: treats, tricks, or a thousand-year tragedy…? 🦋 The House in Fata Morgana is discounted now—don’t miss this special Halloween offer! store.steampowered.com/app/303310/T...

[crashes through a fucking wall] ♏♏♏HAPPY SCORPIO SEASON EVERYBODY♏♏♏

Clyde vs. the otter video

Hey man, what about human translators? No?

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

MIKE DITKA POWER FOOTBALL ACCOLADE 1991 SEGA GENESIS

All arguments in favor of Windows over Linux are one of these: 1. Still need Photoshop or whatever (the valid one) 2. Based on decade-old info and/or jokes 3. Blaming issues with Linux on Linux users while treating the same issues on Windows as an unpleasant inevitability, like wasps or earthquakes

there's a premise in harmony by project itoh about losing consciousness by automating the human body and mind. "the harmonious brain is a brain with all uncertainty removed" it's ironic that these guys argue ai is conscious when they ultimately want to live an unconscious life

[Chef John voice] Talk shit get hiiiit

Grimdoomer has just released the first version of the "Peer Pressure" softmod for the Xbox 360, giving code execution at boot time, within 20 seconds, with no hardware modifications required, supporting the majority of console motherboard revisions! github.com/grimdoomer/X...

Guy on a web forum who abbreviates "though" as "thou"

Localization of dialogue is an art. Building engines and tools is art. Concept art is, well, art. Even placeholding art is art. If design or architecture are art forms then so is any act of building tools or systems. It's all art. And every AI model is built off stolen art, from every art form.

I've seen a lot of programmers really disrespect themselves thinking that genAI is "fine" when it comes to coding or w/e because it's not "art" Programming is an art. It requires creativity. And you're literally programming graphics, it's visual art. It's just art. It counts. AI coding is AI "art"

Annoy me with ads? I'm gonna go out of my way to block them! Annoy me with emails or notifications? I'm opting da heck out! Annoy me with AI? You're dead to me! They're saying it's a Fuck You October (I'm they. But also he)

One of the funniest lines in a show full of banger after banger

My wife just suggested we go halfsies on one Diet Canada Dry at a time as opposed to two at once so as to maximize the carbonation efficiency which is 1) the most romantic thing I've ever heard, and 2) proof that we're both on "the" spectrum

yeah we made this and it was AWESOME

Friday at work

steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you

Here’s a recomp project that deserves a look! Slop free goodness.